I’m sure that the new Saudi owners and Jared Kushner will be looking into hacking up human developer cost by any means necessary.
Oh no ha ha oh no no noooo.
You fuckers are going under. None of us are buying your shit-- especially if it’s all AI generated shit.
Making good games that arent pay to win trash will do that too, ya know…
I keep forgetting that this stupid AI bubble hasn’t popped yet and I’m always surprised someone is trying to add it to their business
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
Fortunately, thou hast not even come close
It will do the opposite. More costs and less profit.
Was “Yakety sax” playing in the background when they said that?
Goddamnit. I was actually looking forward to BF6
I recommend saving the money and checking out the Finals which has better destruction. Has 3 v 3 objective mode too now for those who hated getting third partied.
Do they have good gameplay? Story?
Oh yeah, were you looking forward to a sense of pride and accomplishment?
Root access to PCs, EU chatcontrol, and AI together!!! Unlimited profits!
Well yeah, if they cook the books like Private Equity always does, they can suck some profit out of it while destroying the company. And then later blame it on AI, why not? … Shit, the New York Times and the Washington Post would probably roll with that story.
As someone who uses AI regularly for software engineering and ~2/3 of the time finds it very effective…
…there is no way it can produce quality games or gaming experiences.
I look forward to watching EA collapse. Get rekt.
There always places. I’m skeptical about saving significant money but what about graphical or story elements? I’m not too familiar with how games are built but ai can generate arbitrary “artwork” and even music
The human employees may use AI to help speed things up or do repetitive/monotonous tasks, but without human oversight the AI will be functionally worthless for most things due to lack of knowledge over instructions. Add on the insecure and unoptimized code AI spits out and it’s gonna be fun watching the dumpster fire.
For me the beauty of some games is the knowledge of the writers involved in a story or the composers for the music.
If I know upfront it’s all AI generated I think that’d ruin it for me. But I realize that’s just my opinion.
As a developer/tech lead who also uses ai i bloody agree. This is going to be baaaadddd. Didnt know ea could get worse
People still buy fifa, they always dod and always will. And with the billions they spend on lootboxes, they probably make their money back
So business as usual, then.
Damn, I was actually looking forward to battlefield 6. Haven’t bought an EA game in probably 10 years, so the loss isn’t that big of a deal. And with COD being shit for 12 years, my FPS days might be over.
It’s very stupid to install a rootkit spyware on your computer to play a video game. Now that spyware is owned by the Saudi government too. Assuming you play on PC.
I’m a playstation guy. My computer savvy days are way in the rearview.
Delta Force has a Battlefield-ish multiplayer mode. It’s free to play and you unlock new characters and guns as you advance. (Then there’s an extraction mode too if you’re into that.) I just tried it for the first time after the beta several months ago and I thought it was alright. No jets, but still solid.
Honestly I don’t like the air vehicles of battlefield, so that’s not a ding against it in my book.
Maybe start a gang war PvP in gtav? I’ve never played gtav so I don’t know if that’s even possible
I’ve never played their multiplayer. I’ll just play fallout 4. Close enough, right?
This going to be a total venture capitalist play. It was already set that the fifty billion dollar acquisition was also going to be placing EA in like twenty billion in debts. They’ll flood it with more debts, piece the IP’s all out, legal launder the money, and take ea into bankruptcy.
EA is dead.
yeah, good riddance. As long as ubisoft doesn’t suck up the bigger ips it can only get better
I hope they sell spore to a better company
I’m just really glad that I don’t play any games from EA…
Since Bioware is just a shell of its former self, I only care about Hazelight’s games which are published by EA. It takes two is one of the best games ever made.
I really liked EA. Back on the C64 and the Amiga.
